Willow Creek mine

Willow Creek mine is located 45 kilometres west of the town of Chetwynd, in northeast British Columbia. The mine is an open cut operation which produces approximately 500,000 tonnes a year of hard coking coal and low-volatile PCI coal for steelmaking. The company has applied to expand the mine to produce 1.7 million tonnes a year.

The mine is operated by Western Coal, a subsidiary of Walter Energy, a Vancouver, Canada headquartered company.

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